The latest issue features interviews with 1995 Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and the renowned novelist Ian McEwan, as well as a selection of work from Britain's most promising novelists, short story writers, and poets.At the magazine's center is a colloquy between James Fenton, Oxford professor of poetry, and Darryl Pinckney, the much-praised expatriate author of High Cotton. They discuss contemporary British and American writing, race relations, gay issues, and art.In the ongoing feature "The Man in the Back Row Has a Question", a distinguished assembly of Irish and British writers offer their assessments of literature in the British Isles at the millennium.As always, The Paris Review features the best in new fiction and poetry, a mix that inspired William Kennedy to remark, "Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature, back to the Greeks and up to the current issue of The Paris Review".